>>8241396I felt bad as you'd asked a legitimate question in the last thread and nobody answered. As someone who has collected a lot of prize figures in the past I thought I'd help out.
Bandai Spirit (Formerly Banpresto) is an arm of NamcoBandai that operates in the space between arcade machines and toys.
They have historically made countless prize figures for crane machines (CraneKing), UFO catchers, lotteries, etc. over the years.
Whilst some statues may be designed to be paired (e.g. matchmakers) the vast majority are stand alone, all with different sculptors, using different scales and paints.
The Ichiban line are lottery (kuji) figures, more info on them here
https://www.kujiconnect.com/ichiban-kujiWFC (not to be mixed up with WCF which are chibi super deformed collectible sets) is a whole nother beast. It's effectively an annual sculpting tournament where different artists enter there best work where the winning entry either gets turned into a Master Stars (upscale) or a last chance lottery figure. The rest become SCultures. Think it's into it's 11th year now.
The whole things pretty confusing and even I can't keep up, so don't think of them as a line, since the same sculptor may make an Ultimate Variation in the same scale and palette as a previous SCultures, so it's really just a question of which ones you think look good together.
I hope this helps.
